Attorney General William Barr

Is it a valid legislative power or purpose to require someone to commit a crime to reply to a congressional subpoena? Barr and the DOJ have presented the clear state of the law, which is undisputed, that the grand jury information in the Mueller report is confidential under law. It is easy to conclude Congress may not order anyone — particularly the United States attorney general — to commit a crime by disclosing that information. Bill Barr’s composure during the post-Mueller report circus shows that he’s got sand. I would not be surprised if his DOJ under the master counter-puncher, Donald Trump, decided to get aggressive with Nadler, whose claim of a constitutional crisis could come back to bite him.

Barr called the letter a “bit snitty,” and countered the criticism by saying he had moved quickly to release the entire report, minus minimal redactions, and the whole world could see what Mueller had found — and didn’t find. It was a legitimate, if thin, line of questioning, but Dems didn’t like the answer and lost it again. Obviously frustrated that their main talking point for the entire Trump presidency has come up empty, they savaged Barr and accused him of covering up for a corrupt ­president. It was politics at its most dishonest as they tried to argue that up is down and black is white. Barr was mostly stoic.

We ignored the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary grandstanding and making fools of themselves to bring you a mash-up of the key points from Attorney General Willam Barr's testimony during yesterday's hearing on the Special Counsel's investigation and report on Russian involvement in the 2016 election.

We have been going through the Mueller Report and will have a few more things to say about it as we complete our review and analysis, but first let’s go over what we see as the biggest hole in the Report. The biggest hole is the Report’s utter failure to address the validity of the “predicate” to the entire Trump investigation.

That participants in the Trump campaign were spied upon an irrefutable fact. So, why did the Democrats and their Leftwing media do-boys go nuts about it? Because if Barr investigates whether the spying was “was adequately predicated" it will reveal the Democrat-generated falsehoods behind the closed loop system that set-up the entire Trump – Russia investigation.